On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:38:58PM -0700, jennyw wrote: > I had trouble running the mutt package that comes with sarge, so I went > back to the one in woody (by editing sources.list, including stable and > commenting out the testing lines). Things work great now, but I would > like to keep the older version of mutt when I do a dist-upgrade. Is there > a way to mark it so that it doesn't get upgraded? > > Also, is there a better way to get a package from another distribution > than rewriting sources.list? I see that there's a -t option for apt, but > this doesn't seem to have an effect. For example, before editing > sources.list, I tried apt-get -t stable mutt. This went for the testing > version instead. Look at man apt_preferences. You should be able to pin mutt to version in woody. If you pin the package rather than putting it on hold, you should be able to automatically upgrade to new woody package should one due to a security fix become available at a later time. -- Jerome
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